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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VH2_five-row-at-reynolda-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Five Row was community of African-American farmworkers and their families who worked at Reynolda, the estate of Katharine and R.J. Reynolds. First occupied in 1916, it began as two rows of five cottages and gardens that fronted an unpaved road alo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10WE_well-1807_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This early nineteenth-century well served the Gemeinhaus and its various outbuildings. When the archaeologists reopened the well in the 1960s, an original wooden pump stock was recovered and preserved. "During these days a well has been dug in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10RR_historic-bethabara-park-1753_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Welcome to the Historic Bethabara Park Community Garden. Restored in 1990, this garden is the only well-documented colonial community garden in America. The original frontier garden of the Moravian settlers was established in 1754 to nourish the c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10RP_calf-barn-1765_Winston-Salem-NC.html
According to a 1766 map a calf barn was erected on this site in 1765. The map suggests it was made of two equal sized barns, like this one, connected by an open roofed area. The current structure, a late 18th or early 19th-century timber-framed ba…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106N_medical-gardens-1761_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The first Medical Garden (Hortus Medicus) was planted here in 1756 for Dr. Hans Martin Kalberlahn. This reconstruction is based upon the Christian Gottlieb Reuter map of Dr. August Schuberts' 1761 garden. The map indicates the plants for each bed.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106M_community-garden-1759_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The earliest garden was planted near the Wagner Cabin in 1754. The area was later enlarged by the head garnener, Jacob Lung, to include one half acre and appear as they do today. The members of the community worked in the garden together and then …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106L_gemeinhaus-1756_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This large two-story log building was the first Moravian Congregation House, or church, in North Carolina. It was begun in 1755 and consecrated in February, 1756. It contained the Gemeinsaal (meeting hall) and living quarters for the Minister's fa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106K_bethabara-fort-1756-63_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The French and Indian War (1754-63) prompted the peaceful Moravians, in the midst of busy harvest time and in only 18 days, to build a five-sided palisade around the central part of the community. Later, such fortifications were added to the mill …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106J_log-house-ca-1816_Winston-Salem-NC.html
This log house was built on the site of an earlier 1759 house. Although the date of its construction is still under investigation, according to the Records of the Moravians this house may have been built as early as 1816. Over the years it was mod…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM106I_hans-wagner-cabin-1752_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Hans Wagner, a hunter, trapper and miller, and his teenage son built this cabin in 1752, but left for new land on the Yadkin River, when the Moravians purchased the Wachovia Tract. On November 17, 1753, the first 15 Brothers found the abandoned ca…
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